Appendix V

It is not the equality of condition that makes men immoral and irreligious; but when men, being
equal, are also immoral and irreligious, the effects of immorality and irreligion more easily
manifest themselves, because men have but little influence over each other, and no class exists
which can undertake to keep society in order. Equality of condition never creates profligacy of
morals, but it sometimes allows that profligacy to show itself.